Word: threw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motor and thrust a small object at him with both hands. Her gesture was not that of a woman pointing a revolver. II Duce, intent upon his thoughts, did not notice the blue steel muzzle trained upon his temple. As a band struck up the Fascist hymn, "Giovinezza," he threw back his head and fixed his eyes on a staff flying the Italian flag. The bullet sped, but not into Signor Mussolini's brain. He had thrown back his head sufficiently so that it pierced only the tip of his nostrils. Tiny stinging powder burns seared his cheek, his lips...
...name, let us forget the stench, since we must fight through it!" wailed the distracted bourgeoisie when they read Le Feu and promptly tossed it into the fire. Last week M. Barbusse returned from a trip through "Europe's Little Hell: the Balkans" and many readers of Le Quotidien threw that newspaper into the fire rather than endure his searing expose...
Throughout newspaperdom the elated cried: "No, indeed; Mr. Houghton did not throw stones! Pat was right! Houghton threw a monkey wrench...
...brass bell yapped; a siren hooted like a gull. Police-chief Richard 0. Zober of Passaic in a red flivver. "Disperse that crowd!" He took a metal-covered sphere from his pocket; threw it; threw two more; gray gas sidled into the dusk. Tear bombs! . . . More bells, more hooting. A fire engine. Another. Enormous silver rods of water battered the hatless women, the men who had no overcoats. The crowd eddied, broke, swirled down the street. Policemen dashed after, clubbing backs, heads, shoulders...
...University wrestling meet, the 1929 matmen were defeated by their Blue rivals, 18-9. In spite of their impressive record this season the Yale Freshmen were more powerful than had been expected. The feature bout of the meet was in the 135-pound class, in which Wiley of Yale threw Captain Lifrak of Harvard in an exciting one minute overtime period...